The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-08-27
MR.. P0INDEXTER.
The disappearing Situation of
Three Young Girls.

Now I'll leave it to you whether any
thing could be more provoking more NOR
tifying, more unexpected, and if YOU don't
think we had every right, if we chose! to
be thunderstruck and indignant and all
that; that is, if any body could be indignant
with the dear, beautiful creature; and if
we weren't obliged to laugh at ourselves
IN spite of ourselves the moment she shut
the door, after kissing each of US, and went
out and left US, in her gentle, proud
fashion, looking blankly in each others
faces. We had been talking and combing
out our hair, we three girls, Iris and Prim,
the twins, and l, their younger sister,
'There's no denying it, Prim, he's an ex-
cellent MATCH" Iris had said half an hour
before. "He belongs to one of the Oldest
and best families in the country"
And one of the wealthiest,n said Prim
(which is quite as much to the purpose
You can't live on the bones of your ances-
torsn
"Well, ancestors look down from the
walls of every room in Poindexter Place
And 1t is very comfortable and gives YOU
quite the sense of being better than the
best to have such witnesses to your claims
as those-undoubted ones, too, bought at
no auction sale. And then, although it's
not been opened to guests since the old
Poindexter left this sphere, the city resi-
derce is perfect treasure-house.n
"How do you knowH'
20, I've taken pains to find out-ouite
accidentally, of course, you may be sure
1t is just full of old Turkey rugs worth
three and four thousand dollars apiece
Looking ready to fall to pieces sup
pose"
"And Gobelin tapestries, and old ham
mered silver, and Sevres and porcelains.
and bronzes, and wonderful glass, and a
picture-gallery. o, there's nothing like it's
dim rich splendor! And l must say it would
be very agreeable thing to queen it in
such house as that, especially with an
adoring husband. And somehow | never
look at Mr.. Poindexter without feeling sure
that he will love the woman he makes his
wife with his whole heart and soul"
"You're so romantic, Iris ~ said |.
81 must confess he's a little too high and
mighty, little too stately and intellectual
and all that"
"He's going to be a Senator of the United
States, the proudest position on earth, es.
pecially when it's our Senator and he ought
to be high and mighty said Prm "But
you'll never be familiar with him, and it's
shocking to be afraid of your husband"
"Afraid of him!" said l. "Why, he's
awfully handsome, and he's not forty"
"But then, i" Iris went on, tive don't know.
He mightn't be so very stately and intellect
ual if he ever had chance to unbend, if
mamma wasn't always by. He might let
himself down from that level and take a
little interest in agreeable trifes. pve no
doubt that if mamma sat in another room,
as other peoples mothers do, we should find
that he could laugh and jest as gayly as
Harry Freeman. l saw him looking at Sue
as if he relished her laughing ways the
other day. These grave dons like to be
amused. But there! he never gets a chance
mammals always here, with her absurd no.
lions about chaperonage. And then, too, /
don't think she's ever found out that she's
not young now. None of the other girls
mothers think of hanging round the way
she does, and she always keeps the CONVEX
sation at such heights, aud there's so much
majesty and manners and all, that he never
has an opportunity really to know us and
see what there is Of u.s. And for my part l
can't quite make up my mind which Of US
three it is he really comes to see-at least
couldn'ttell to-day. Sometimes I've thought
he likes Sues spirits, and then I've been
Sure it's my eyes, and now l see plainly
that it's your occurrences that's so taking"